It's corporate policy because any change would take longer than the heat death of the universe. We will still be using IE6 when the rest of us have the net plugged directly into our brains.
Yeah, they should really consider folk like us that are forced to use IE6 because of "corporate policy"; specifically, corporate policy to be as dumb as possible in all things.
Do you know for a fact we don't have the farming capacity globally or are you just presuming that? There is hardly anywhere on earth that is farmed as intensively as parts of Western Europe and North America. If the rest of the world caught up we'd have a massive amount of capacity; for the reason why we don't, see Doha trade talks passim. That said, I agree biofuels are unlikely to be a panacea, but they are going to be an important component of the energy mix as oil recedes in importance.
It 504s (gateway timeout) for me. I'm on my work connection and IWF-listed material usually is blacklisted internally. I imagine there are a lot of Aussies hitting Wikileaks at the moment, though.
Given the volume passing through Facebook's servers, it is pretty unlikely that such a system would not piggyback on their own servers in their own datacentre. What the hell, they'll probably just make an anti-terrorist app that everyone will install anyway...
I think that your friend was telling stories. One, nobody spams strangers with CP. Too easily traced. Two, if it did happen, then no cop would arrest him; even with the magic words child porn any competent journalist could have a field day. Three, accidentally viewing such images is not a crime; possession and redistribution are, but accidentally catching a glance is not. If it were, 4chan would have got an awful lot of people in trouble by now.
Approximately speaking, by the time you get to the end of the internet, it would be time to start over. So you would never stop. 600kB/s is something like 1500GB/month, so you are talking probably a step up from a home connection. However, web spidering should parallelise pretty effectively, so I would imagine distribution is the way to go here (particularly since home connections are the ones we're interested in).
IIRC correctly they just bounce a signal up the wires (I forget the details) and can measure to within a few miles where the break is that way. I imagine whoever caused the break will propbably 'fess up quite regularly as well.
I'm not convinced that schools are being taken over by left-wingers more than they ever were. If you went to school in Britain in the seventies you stood a good chance of getting regular diatribes from a Communist party member, which doesn't happen so much now.
The real reason literacy is problematic is that so much study has been cut out of curriculums in order to teach "the basics" that no-one has any chance to actual use "the basics". How can you learn to use statistics effectively if you never actually use them in a geography or biology class?
I imagine there will be internal fallout at the BBC over this, but traditionally courts have given bona fide journalists quite wide latitude in cases like this.
Real world analogy: if a reporter went and lived with a group of squatters for a few days would we consider him guilty of trespass? I agree the offence is more egregious but given the level of harm actually done (and which would have been done anyway) I can't see the courts getting their knickers in a twist over it.
Sometimes things look the way they do because, well, that is the way they are. South Ossetia is not a sovereign country, it would like to be. Russia had no reason to be there without a UN mandate. Why has Russia issued everyone in South Ossetia Russian passports? Ukraine say they did pay their bill, and that is not sufficient reason to cut off half of Western Europe. Take them to the WTO like evry other civilised country. As for Putin - you don't buy polonium in a chemist's shop and you don't use it to send a message without authorisation from pretty high up. What has he done about it? Oh wait, there's no proof. Maybe because there was no realistic investigation? The rest of the developed world is a pretty huge place too, yet by and large the streets of London are not littered with the corpses of journalists. Why is that? Censorship? You do not have a credible opposition media, with very limited exceptions. I can't beleive in a country the size of Russia you can't find enough people that are interested in hearing a contrary viewpoint. I agree about Soviet Russia jokes. As for drink: people are responsible for themselves but Russia's alcohol problems are a public health issue, not an individual one. What is your average male life expectancy?
Lastly, I don't really see why you're so keyed up about this. We're not "hating" Russia or anything close to it. We're expressing our opinion on this like anything else, and if you don't like it, maybe a long hard look in the mirror before presuming that we are the ignorant ones here.
It's called arbitrage. If you can buy something below its market price and resell it at market price without adding any value then there is something wrong with the market. In point of fact, the ticket sellers typically have kickback deals with the scalpers, so the artist and venue are not quite as blameless as you would like to think.
There's a letter written in 1928 by a well known Scottish piper complaining about the harshness of the new electric recording process. Previously recording had been mechanical, in that air vibrating actually moved the needle. The new process introduced microphones, and the difference was huge. Probably the biggest single leap forward in recorded sound quality, ever.
It's what you're used to. Look at how Western ears respond to Middle Eastern music, with unstable scales and quarter tone intervals. They find a standard piano to be horridly out of tune and unnatural sounding (which it is, but that's another story). I know a guy who's a technically strong guitarist, but week to week he never tunes the damn thing. He only tunes it for me because I make him; yet he can sing in perfect tune. He's used to his machine sounding like that and it doesn't bother him.
Sometimes it's just down to expectations. As a musician, I spend a lot of time around various instruments and the difference between low bit-rate MP3 and the real life equivalent is very obvious. It's rather un-nerving to listen to an acoustic steel string with no pick noise, for example. All that said, though, most musicians would listen to music on a cassette tape played underwater; the music is infinitely more than the reproduction, and if it isn't then you're obviously more interested in your penis size than the music.
I remember seeing, many years ago, a science programme investigating audiophiles and high end audio equipment. They did all sorts of listening tests with various bits of high end and not so high end gear. Results were pretty much as you'd expect: after a certain price point, there was no real correlation in sound quality. The funniest part, though, was to finish, a string quartet was brought on and played live to the blindfolded panel. They hated it: flat, no warmth, sounds didn't separate, mastering didn't feel right, etc, etc. Lots of red faces when the blindfolds came off.
As for scalpers, the simple fact is that prices are too low. If you have people willing to pay often ten times the face value of a ticket, why in the name of god are you selling them so cheaply? Sell them at what the market considers a fair price and the scalpers will be out of business.
More to the point, whoever proposed this idea seems to be completely unaware of the workings of orbital mechanics. Clue: the stuff is already falling. The problem is it keeps missing.
Actually, no. During the 17th-19th centuries, copyright in England under certain conditions was perpetual. Milton's works, for example, were still under copyright in the 1820s (when a scandal went up over one of his descendants who was living in penury, as the copyright had long been assigned).
Yes, just imagine a bunch of companies, freely competing with each other to drive prices down and serve consumers better. I'm glad we don't do that here in the capitalist West. Wait, wat?
Just make sure that signature doesn't get added to the AV vendors lists. Much simpler than an out in the open executable. And if you want to build in a rootkit, it's much easier to build in a subtle root exploit (remember that single equals with obscure race conditions that was found in Linux a while back?).
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They thought of that. My computer is scanned every night for executable files and if any are found I get reported. They are smart in a very dumb way.
It's corporate policy because any change would take longer than the heat death of the universe. We will still be using IE6 when the rest of us have the net plugged directly into our brains.
Yeah, they should really consider folk like us that are forced to use IE6 because of "corporate policy"; specifically, corporate policy to be as dumb as possible in all things.
Do you know for a fact we don't have the farming capacity globally or are you just presuming that? There is hardly anywhere on earth that is farmed as intensively as parts of Western Europe and North America. If the rest of the world caught up we'd have a massive amount of capacity; for the reason why we don't, see Doha trade talks passim. That said, I agree biofuels are unlikely to be a panacea, but they are going to be an important component of the energy mix as oil recedes in importance.
It 504s (gateway timeout) for me. I'm on my work connection and IWF-listed material usually is blacklisted internally. I imagine there are a lot of Aussies hitting Wikileaks at the moment, though.
Given the volume passing through Facebook's servers, it is pretty unlikely that such a system would not piggyback on their own servers in their own datacentre. What the hell, they'll probably just make an anti-terrorist app that everyone will install anyway...
I think that your friend was telling stories. One, nobody spams strangers with CP. Too easily traced. Two, if it did happen, then no cop would arrest him; even with the magic words child porn any competent journalist could have a field day. Three, accidentally viewing such images is not a crime; possession and redistribution are, but accidentally catching a glance is not. If it were, 4chan would have got an awful lot of people in trouble by now.
Approximately speaking, by the time you get to the end of the internet, it would be time to start over. So you would never stop. 600kB/s is something like 1500GB/month, so you are talking probably a step up from a home connection. However, web spidering should parallelise pretty effectively, so I would imagine distribution is the way to go here (particularly since home connections are the ones we're interested in).
Not that hard. A typical spidering server only runs at about 600kB/s or so. A distributed effort in real time would not be infeasible.
IIRC correctly they just bounce a signal up the wires (I forget the details) and can measure to within a few miles where the break is that way. I imagine whoever caused the break will propbably 'fess up quite regularly as well.
The real reason literacy is problematic is that so much study has been cut out of curriculums in order to teach "the basics" that no-one has any chance to actual use "the basics". How can you learn to use statistics effectively if you never actually use them in a geography or biology class?
Real world analogy: if a reporter went and lived with a group of squatters for a few days would we consider him guilty of trespass? I agree the offence is more egregious but given the level of harm actually done (and which would have been done anyway) I can't see the courts getting their knickers in a twist over it.
Several times, yes. I didn't actually question it, then I saw it again, and thought, that's a bit harsh...oh, I see.
Lastly, I don't really see why you're so keyed up about this. We're not "hating" Russia or anything close to it. We're expressing our opinion on this like anything else, and if you don't like it, maybe a long hard look in the mirror before presuming that we are the ignorant ones here.
It's called arbitrage. If you can buy something below its market price and resell it at market price without adding any value then there is something wrong with the market. In point of fact, the ticket sellers typically have kickback deals with the scalpers, so the artist and venue are not quite as blameless as you would like to think.
There's a letter written in 1928 by a well known Scottish piper complaining about the harshness of the new electric recording process. Previously recording had been mechanical, in that air vibrating actually moved the needle. The new process introduced microphones, and the difference was huge. Probably the biggest single leap forward in recorded sound quality, ever.
It's what you're used to. Look at how Western ears respond to Middle Eastern music, with unstable scales and quarter tone intervals. They find a standard piano to be horridly out of tune and unnatural sounding (which it is, but that's another story). I know a guy who's a technically strong guitarist, but week to week he never tunes the damn thing. He only tunes it for me because I make him; yet he can sing in perfect tune. He's used to his machine sounding like that and it doesn't bother him.
Sometimes it's just down to expectations. As a musician, I spend a lot of time around various instruments and the difference between low bit-rate MP3 and the real life equivalent is very obvious. It's rather un-nerving to listen to an acoustic steel string with no pick noise, for example. All that said, though, most musicians would listen to music on a cassette tape played underwater; the music is infinitely more than the reproduction, and if it isn't then you're obviously more interested in your penis size than the music.
As for scalpers, the simple fact is that prices are too low. If you have people willing to pay often ten times the face value of a ticket, why in the name of god are you selling them so cheaply? Sell them at what the market considers a fair price and the scalpers will be out of business.
More to the point, whoever proposed this idea seems to be completely unaware of the workings of orbital mechanics. Clue: the stuff is already falling. The problem is it keeps missing.
Heh. Glad I'm not the only one with dreams of a leather clad Janeway :)
Actually, no. During the 17th-19th centuries, copyright in England under certain conditions was perpetual. Milton's works, for example, were still under copyright in the 1820s (when a scandal went up over one of his descendants who was living in penury, as the copyright had long been assigned).
Bombs and grand larceny? Pssh, that's small potatoes. Back in *my* younger days, I invaded a small African country. Beat that, slashdotters!
Yes, just imagine a bunch of companies, freely competing with each other to drive prices down and serve consumers better. I'm glad we don't do that here in the capitalist West. Wait, wat?
Just make sure that signature doesn't get added to the AV vendors lists. Much simpler than an out in the open executable. And if you want to build in a rootkit, it's much easier to build in a subtle root exploit (remember that single equals with obscure race conditions that was found in Linux a while back?).